The Wabash Courier, Volume 18, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 June 1850 — Page 1

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From Grahamj Magaezfae.

TIIK SMOKER. »V T. «. DOKOHO.

il aay bim after dinner,

And hi* face waa like tbe ran, When inearly lie goes to reat, His lpnpi: day'a journey done. The bcof had made it hot,

And the wine bad made it red, And a cloud waa all around it,

Like a curtain round a betl-,V-4, t- V". .. Jliachnir wu lilted bock,

And bin feet wcreon the wall, And the iroublca of tbe world Did not trouble him at all! For though he toiled and puffed.

Like an engine or a atove, "Yet mniled antid his labors Tbia "cloud compelling Jove."

Again 1 passed his dwelling, In the dtirknesa of the night And atili I knew the Smoker,

Like a glow-worm by hia light, 'Ms head was still thrown bock, And his feet were still on high, And he had a moat peculiar look

From out-hid half-abut eye.

'Twos morning and I sow him, Thisgreat Vesuvius man, And o*^r the news-full paper

His misty vision ran i'orstill the fire waa there, And atill the smoke waa thick And I remembered me the taUm,

Who»e hero was—Old IS ick!

I wonder if ho slept Or even went about 1 Or was ho only some machine—

For what Ah there ia ihuduubt! Though puffing, always pulling, IIu n*V»r seemed to go What good he did by atoying there la more thnn yet 1 know,

A beggar hoy craved charity— The Smoker '-bleascd his Mara*.' And aaid lie 'hud no change to apare'-f-

Then aetit lor more cigars! The patient wife ar last complains He gruffly bids her cease "My home's a hell it's very hard 1 cannot smako in peace!"

MINNTRKIi, NING THAT SONG AGAIN »Y Mf.C. w. BVERCTT. Minstrel, sing that song again,

I'lattktive in Its solemn flow: W» mory owns its magic stroin, Loved and eheriaheti long ago I rf»! the past, the mystic paat,

Rises through the vista dim— Just as twilight's shades are cast A,t tl" departing hymn!

Minstrel,'twas an eve like thi»,Stars were spangling all the aky: Every aephyr spMte of blisa,

Floating in its fragrance by* Then, within our moon-lit boweV, \ne, with voice tike muaic's own, fwectly charmed the lingering hour, ,, To the luto^s aoft silvery tone.

Aa the witching cadence fell Vild within our bower of love, Angsl bands might prove the #p«ll,

Bending from the courts above! Minstrel, chaunt onoe more the air, {,. Soft as spring's departing breatht 6fce who sang it* numbers theru

Slumber* as the brido of dcaih!

Minstrel, chide thou not my team— Thou liast waked a mournful thcm«« Memory rovee the slumbwing years,

Like MMed«*r forgotten dream tr Day will cone with joy and g!adn«e»i Care* once more will fling their lijbV,

Chide not then, my spirit's aadnesst— Minstrel, let me weep to-ui*ht!

HEAVEN*

tt is tha Hope of Heaven which relieves despair. Short as are our conceptions, there are moments with perhaps every mind when glimpses shoot in of a bright and joyous and happy existence. •The may be instantaneous in their coming, and momentary in their stay—yet they leave a vague sense of happiness somewhere in store for the rightheous with accompanying assurance that it lives not here below. AU the associations of childhood have mingled up tho terms of happiness and Heaven— and thitherward the wing of hope is gliding while the damps and mildews of time are gathering over our spirits.

FLOWERS.

Flowers are indeed but emblems of countless blessings—"who openeth his hand and filleth all things living with plenteousoess." Flowers are, in the language of the poets, "Nature's jewels"— incitements to poetry and to refined sentiment. They are emblems of the lovely, the innocent, and tho most dear gentle and delicious memories do they breathe of the absent and the dead, whilst the? enhance the beauty, gaiety and rapture of the living. O, man, cultivate a taste and love tor flowers—those overflowings of His bounty who created the first Eden, from whom we hope to re* ccive the sceood.

Several delegates appeared from Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, and South Carolina, and took their place* ilobe convention four 1 bn »ro

The president called upon the delegations from each State to report the names of their committee men appointed under the resolutions of yesterday raising committee to report business for the convention. The delegations reported two from each State to compose said committee. *m gii

Gov. Henderson/of Texas said,'as this had been called a treasonable convention, he wished his name printed in full, *'S. Pinckney Henderson."

Mr. Campbell, of Alabama, offered a long list of resolutions on behalf of Alabamu delegation. The resolutions declared—first, that it is the duty of Con* gress to provide governments for the ter« ritories immediately that the assaults upon the property of Southern people in these territories are blows aimed at the Constitution itself that we will resist such nggression, and, if disunion follows, the North are the disunionists.

Mr. Erwin. of Alabama, offered a resolution declaring that thu reception or consideration by Congress of petitions from members of non-slavehold-ing States is subvetsive of the principle of tiiis government and will lend to the most dungcrous and lamentable consequences.

Mr. Benning, of Georgia, offered a series of resolutions, recommending the division of tlto Territories equally between the two sections, and thai the South is equally with the North entitled to participation in these Territories— that the South will resist ul 1 encroachments upon her rights, and that she will not reccivo any dishonorable compromise.

Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, offered a resolution recommending and pledging liberal support to the new Southern paper, proposed to be published at Washington, for the udvocacy of Southern rights.

Mr. McRea.of Miss., offered a series of resolutions one of them declures that the South would be willing to settle the slavery question upon the principle and line of tho Missouri compromise ml would not submit to any other com promise another declares, in the event the present Congress refuses to settle the slavery question, that thi^ convention recommend the system of commercial non-intercourse to be adopted by the Southern States.

Mr. Cheatham, of Tenn., offered resoutioiis raising a committee on priming The convention then adjourned till 10 A. M-, «u-morrow, in order to give the committee on business time to report.

The following area fuir specimen of the many resolutions offered iu the Southern convention this morning. Tho following series wore read by Mr. Banning, of Georgia, tuid reported to the committee on business |.'

Resolved, That the United States aro a coQfederucy in which the several Slates are equnl and sovereign.

Resotved, That the public territory belongs to tfee States thus united in confederacy.

Resolved, That the slnveholding Sates have a right to sharo with the non-slave-holding States in whatever belong to the United SiAtcs, and more particularly in the laud acquired from Mexico under the names of New Mexico and California, and in all the incidents of such land including its property of conferring political power that this right embraces the right of having for their citizens the privilege of emigrating to and settling upou that land and of being protected there in the possession and use of whatevor they held as property accord ing to the laws of the respective States from which they may have emigrated, not excepting slaves.

Resolved, That the slaveholdingStates have on equal right with the non-slave holding to have their citizens pass into the District of Columbia with their prop ertv, including slaves, and while there to possess and use such property in everp way to which citizens of the nonslavehoiding States may possess aiid use their property, not excepting the traffic in such slaves.

Resolved, That these rights are not only of the essence of the confederacy principle, from its very nature, but are directly recognized and guaranteed in several parts of the instrument of confederation itself. The constitution has ia it this stipulation, viz "The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the united States and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed a3 to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular State and that any denial of, or injury to such rights by the non-slaveholding States, through the action of Congress, would be unconstitutional.

ResolweA, That it is the duty of the non-alaveholding States under the constitution to see to it themselves that slaves escaping Into their borders are delivered up to the owners on uie claim

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The convention met this morning at 10 o'cloek. There was an immense throng of spectators in attendance, and considerable excitement prevailed tu the galleries. The convention, Presi dent Sharkey ill the chair, was opened with prayer by Rev. C. D. Elliott.

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boundaries, and that the clatm set up. by the non-slaveholdiug States to a part of the soil within those boundaries, on pretence of its beng a portion of New Mex ico, is false. jF?ejo/vr£f,TjiattheslavehoJdingStatPs have a righVto the use and enjoyment by their citizens of property in slaves within the limits of such States without disturbance or interference from the non-slaveholding States or their citizens.

Resolved, That the non-slaveholding States, with an exception or two, have almost destroyed some of these rights, and are in course of destroying the rest. ^1. They have not only failed to pro vicle that fugitive slaves within their lines should be surrendered to their owners on demand, but they have carefully passed laws to protect such fugitives from recapture by their owners. ,, 2. They avow the purpose of seizing arid of holding aU of the New Mexico nnd California to the utter exclusion of the slnveholding States. 3. THey also ayow the purpose of appropriating to themselves more than a third part of Texas, amounting to little less than I5U.000 square miles, under pretence of its constituting a portion of New Mexico. 4. They aUo avow the purposo of abolishing the traffic in ^luves in the District of Columbia, and all of these purposes they are now preparing to cxe cute through Congress. 5. They are, by systematic anti-sla-very agitation, and in eyery other indirect and in some direct ways, endeavoring to uusettle and undermine the principle of property in slaves in the Southern States themselves, and ure actually disturbing the enjoyment in these States of sluve property. In a word, tlrcy are letting it bo plainly seen that, if they do not now resort summarily nnd directly to universal abolition by act of C6n£f€ss, it is not because they wont the will to pass the law, but because for the present they lack the power to exercise it.

Resolved, That to prevent the communication, by the non-slaveholding States, of the destruction of these and other rights of the slavehoiding Suites, something is necessary which shall be cicr.t cither to change these hostile purposes on the part of the non-slave-holding Suites, or to prevent them from acquiring the power to execute these purposes.

Resolved, That whatever will odd to the strength of the slavehoiding States will contribute to the accomplishment of both these object. ^im.

Resolved, That the obtaining by tlieso States of apart of Urn countries acquired from Mexico, the retention by them of the whole area of Texas as claimed by Texas, and the untirSngof their citizens as one mun in party organization separate from the north in reference to the slavery question, would be the three things which would strengthen the South.

Resolved, That the great principle of the Missouri compromise, both at the time of iis adoption and at each of its various applications, was a division of tho public territories between tho slaveholding and non-slaveholding States upon the parallel of.30 degrees 30 minutes north latitude.

Resolved, That although this principle is not free from constitutional doubt, and although it will not, if applied to our present public territories, give the slaveholding States a fair and just share of tho same, any more than it did of our past public territories unapplied to it. yet for the sake of a compromise and settlement of tho controversy between those States and the non-slaveholding States in relation to the territory known as California and New Mexico, and for no other purpose, the slavehoiding States hould again waive the constitutional question involved in the principle, and, looking over its practical unfairness toward them' agree that it may be applied to that territory.

Resohetl, That Congress ought therefore to divide California and New Mexico between the slavehoiding and the non-slaveholding States on the line of 36 deg. 30 inin. north latitude, and this it might do by distinctly recognizing the existence of slavery in all that part of them lying south of that line, and forbiding it in all that port north of the line —that the South ought to submit to tio thing less.

THesolvetl, That California is peculiarly well adapted to slave labor, and, if

the tenure of slave property were byrecognition of this kind secured in that part of it south of 36 deg. 30 min. north latitude,sucli part would in a short lime ripeu into one or more slavehoiding States to swell the number and power of those already in existence. .Retailed, That it is too plain for argument that the slavehoiding States would lose and the non-slaveholding greatly gain by the surrender to the latter of nearly half of Texas, and that the payment to Texas of a few millions as the price, however it might minister to her distress for4 money, would be no compensation to them and tbe more especially as most of the money would cotne out of their pockets.

Resolved, That the people of the slavehoiding States by becoming a unit as respects political or party organization, separate from the jeopTc of the noA-slaveholding Sates, would plact themselves in a {waition of great advantage ia at least three particulars, VMK— First, to eeable them to tarn to account the policy of the political parties of the North, by putting it in the power of the slavghoUKng States to throw their whole undivided might in the scale off which-* ever party that showed the best disposition to 4a them justice^ Seeoad, it!

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Resolved. That the boundaries *Muiment of lore for the Union immediate mcana of earning hundred. Texas as claimed br her are tbe true |*teni senutnent oi tore «i« usshw

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eherrshed by the North* and to terrainate the^tiiueoce of that Union promptly and without internal discord whenever tlte North, came to disregard their rights.«'*fhird, it, would enable them if the wwit came to the worst to defend themselves to the best advanuige, and, therefore, it would be a thing in the highest degree conservative,not oilH* of the Union, but of Hie sentiment of fraternity, between the people of the North and those of the South.

Resolved. Therefore, that the people of the South ought to drop old pahy distinctions and organizations and for the futpre let the test of merit in the diflerent candidates for office be this only which of them is likely to do the most good, friendly, and fraternol part by the South, and to this end that conventions, botb fur the nomination of State officers and President and Vice President, ought hereafter to be held without reference to past party relations.

Resolved, That we therefore invito a .convention of the people of the slavefiolding S|ates to assemble on the fourth

Monday in June. 1852? at -—-—, for the purpose of determining which among the various aspirants for the Presidency ,\nd Vice Presidency ought to receive a he S 1

Resolved, That unless the non-slave-holding States at the next sessions of their respective Legislatures repeal the laws which they have passed to restrict the recovery or fugitive slaves, and also take effectual steps for the practical observance by their citizens of the Constitutional stipulations for tho surrender of sych slaves, the slavehoiding States ought, without delay, to adopt measures of retaliation nnd non-intercourse^

Resolved, That we have little confidence in the efficiency of any law which Congress may pass to secure the observance of this clause of the Constitution, because public opinion at the North is so much opposed to such a law that it could not be enforced.H'HVe look chiefly to the Stutes themselves, who are parties to the stipulation but any law passed by Congress, which gave to the fugitive a jury trial in the State to which he fled.

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Resolved, Tflint in case a majority in Congress shall, regardless of those clear rights of the South, pass any law which which shaU deprive her of that portion of California and New Mexico situated south 3G deg. 30 inin. north, or cut off from Texas any part of the territory lying within the boundaries which she claims as her own or interferes with slavery or the trado in slaves, this con vention shall, on the.——Monday after the passage of such law, bo assembled at for the purpose of considering the remedies to he adopted for redress of the wrong thus perpetrated on Uio South.

Bees Prognosticators of the Weather. Mr. J. A. Payne, author of the Bee Keeper's Guide, says: I am not aware that Bees have been placed in the list of those creatures which are said to foretell the changes of weather, as many animals of the feathered and insect tribe are; but in my opinion they stand foremost of the weather-wise. A nice observer, by looking at them in the early morning during the working season, will very soon be able to form an opinion as to what the day will be, and that almost to a certainty for they will sometimes appear sluggish and inactive, although the morning is very bright and showing every appearance for a fine day; but the sun soon becomes clouded, and rain follows. And, again, the morning may be dull and cloudy, and sometimes rain may be falling, when they may be observed going out and in in considerable numbers; and as sure as this is seen, the day becomes bright and fair. ~~~~~~~

New Mode of Raising Wheat. An experiment has been tried in Iowa, nnd recorded in the Prairie Farmer, by J. A. Rosseau, where two bushels of wheat and one of oats were mixed and sown together in the fall, on one acre. The Oats shot up rapidly, and were ^f course cut down by the frost. They, however, furnished a warm covering for the earth, and when the snow fell among the thick stalks altd lea VIM, they kept it It Ih blowing away.' This covering prevented the winter-killing of the wheat, and the oats yielded rich dressing for the crop the following spring. The result was an abundant crop, while land precisely similar alongside of ft, and treated in the same manner, with the exception of omitting the oats, was utterly worthless. Will some of our readers try this'experiment the coining season, and give us an account of the result?

It is said that Lord Bacon swooned at each eclipse of the m«»n Scaligrr trembled in every limb at the sight of water-

Brahe nearly expired at the

sight of a fox Uledislaus, of Poland, ran from the sight of apples Arhwto shud dered at the presence of a bath Cardan at the breaking of an egg Cassar at the Crowing of a cock Erasmus took a fever whenever be smefied fish Mary of Medicis and the Cardinal de Cardonna, frprn, the odor of a ruse.

A clever fellow, In the modern acceptatkset of ttfe term, i* one who gets drank and squanders his money, toads to bis friends and never asks the money back again, and cheats his tailor to enable bim to do so.

Poverty and idleness go hand in hand. And yet there are thousands who will re-

torn to sceoumthe fo*e to earn a dollsrbecause they see no

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ON THE USE OF MULES. 1. Mules, on a general average, live mtore than twice as long as horses. They are fit for use from three years old to 30. At twelve, a horse has seen his best days nnd is going down hill, but a mule at that age has scarcely risen out of his colthood, and goes on improving till he is twenty. Instances are recorded of mules living sixty or seventy years, but these are exceptions. The general rule is that they average thirty.

2. Mules are never exposed to diseases as horses are. I have spent considerable time in studying the diseases of horses, from ring-bone up to poll evil. But who ever heard of a ring-boned, spavined, wind-broken mule? Immense sums of money are annually lost in the premature death of high spirited horses by accident and disease. The omnibus lines in the city of New York have not been able to sustain their losses, and are beginning to use mules, as less liable by far even to accident as well as disease. This results from the next consideration, which is that— 3. Mules have organs of vision and hearing far superior to those of the horse. Hence they seldom shear, and frighten, and run off. A horse frightens because he imagines he sees something frightful, but a mule, having superior discernment, both by the eye and ear, understands everything he meets, therefore is safe. For the same reason he is surer footed, and hence more valuable in mouutainous regions and on dangerous roads.— I doubt whether on the Alpine paths a mule ever made a misstep. He may have been deceived in the firmness of the spot whore he set his foot, but not in the propriety of the choice, all appearances considered. 4. The mule is much more hardy than the horse. A pair of these animals, owned by a neighbor of mine, although small in size, will plough more land in one week than four horses. In light harness or under the saddle, in hauling iron ore or on the turnpike before a Conestoga wagon, one mule in a life time will kill seven horses. Their faculty of endurance is almost incredible.

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5. Another very important fact is, that in the matter of food, a mule will live and thrive on less than one-half it takes to keep a horse. The horses of England, at this present time, are consuming grain which would save the lives of thousands of British subjects. A particular friend of mine, who has returned from a visit to Ireland, informed me a few days ago that, in the county of Antrim alone, there were eight poor houses, containing from eight to nine hundred paupers each. Wore the nobility disposed to substitute mules for horses, the grave might be cheated out of thousands of victims who starve to death for want of the grain that horses consume. In our country, however, the saving of grain is no object. In a national point of view, the agricultural interest is so great that the greater the demand for grain of all kinds the better for the farmer. But yet individual farmers, who are in debt and whose lane is not improved, would find it profitable, in the course of ten years, to have the labor of a full team, and save one-half and more of the food necessary to keep it as might be the case in substituting mules for horses.—<Pittsburg Sat. Visitor>. ~~~~~~~

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FIRE PROOF PAINT. A New York paper says: This is rather a singular term to use for paint, one of the most combustible materials known. But there is such an article as fire proof paint. It is made out of a kind of chalk or stone which is found in Ohio, and prepared by Mr. Blake, No. 84 Pearl street. We have made use of it ourselves and can give our testimony in its favor. It is similar in appearance to brown cement, and when put upon the roof of a building runs in among the shingles and fills up the crevices and becomes as hard as a rock. If one can imagine a large block of granite or sand-stone completely dissolved so as to become a liquid like melted lead and then pourod over the roof of a building and turn back again to its proper element, he can form a pretty correct idea of <Blake's fire proof paint>. We say this much not for Mr. Blake or his paint, but because we have tried the stuff upon the roof of a barn in the joint of an angle Where we had despaired of ever making it fire or water proof and found it to do both. It proved to be just the thing, and if any of our farmers or readers are desirous of seeing and becoming acquainted with its good qualities, lot [sic]them calflat No. 84 Pearl-street, and examine the article for themselves. ~~~~~~~

JtOCTETY IN Pnil/DEI.riUA. **The Daily News states the estimatd population of Philadelphia at the pres* ent time to be 350.000 or, in other words, 70,000 families. Of this number only 2,000 families have a competency for support above manual labor 20,000 depened upon mechanical and professional branches and the residue of 47,000 is divided into two parti, viz: 30,000 who labor artd -are desiroo* Of laboring, and 17,000 who rcsortto illegitimate and criminal means for a livelihood. Of the labor class, 6,000 are supposed to beggars 4,000 who ttapeod upon tbe offali of the streets and what they can collect from tho kitchens of tbe wealthy 3,000 who steal 1.000 who starve lor want of any kind of support, and 3,000 who follow a promiactiotf* livelihood. Such is tho *t*ie of society in Philadelphia and the elements which compose ft. ?3 W IWXWW wtol!

Don't trust a atan you know to have wronged your friend. He who will rob rob one, wants but an opportunity to take a similar advantage.

TAKlttft THfi €£N81?S« "MaJam, will you please inform me the number of inhabitants there are the house!''• "Sir!" .•« I

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*4The people in this mansion 1 ,•* Well, ihore is eight in tho room afVi erhea^l."

•How many..eight ove they.qff adults '*No, they are all'SiHiiH^.*11 ••Black or white smith .mAdam!*^ s** 1 'il have You know 1 don't live in a bouse with niggrrsf"

didn't allude to color, I only nipant their calling." thurs it, fe if #ell if hart ton there last nijfht yonVI fotfitd «mt, for they Warn* joallittg .ih«t jwaichumti as loud as they .could scream^'

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Madam 1 merely wished toTfcnow hmv rhany people you have in the house, antl what they do for a living."

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Well, if you know best, 'spose you count 'em yourself." "It is my bu-siness to enquire." "Well you'd better attend to it then ahd don't bother ine.,W!s ^lli ••I'm out with the census an^*-."

Well, you not otjt of your senses I should think, to cotnu itu^ t}n' asking such questions'.*' "It is in accordance witll an act of Congress, madam." I

WolU you tell Mr. CoHfrrSSt^Wat He acts very foolish, in sending you round askin' sach silly questions."

.4 friend in town, a few days since, handed us a $5 bill, on the back of which is writ-ten, in a very legible hand, the following brief and very remarkable ar tide. Here it ^.-—Washington (iHd Journal. "This ©5 Bill Is the last fceftt 1 have on earth. It is all that remains to me of a large fortune, $20,000, which have squandered in less than two years in drinking and gambling among lewd women. 23 years old and reduced tb "ttctUfd want, arid'sulcidft' hs the obty prospect I have for hereafter.

To the young 1 would say—Touch not the bowl, there is death iu the cup! Women, wine and cards have been the ruin of me—and lot my example be warning to the voung and old."

Signed' RUFUSALLENT flte^bove endorsement is found on a $5. Indiana Bill, Letter A. Nos. 2631 and 22031, issued at Richmond, Oct. i, .m PttKii'.ift

A NOBLlfi HOltSF.

Gen. Thornburn says,

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horse in the neighborhood of Now York dragging a load of coal (1,200 weight) in a cart. The lane was very narrow—the driver some distance behind, was conversing with a neighbor. The horso on a slow walk, came up to a child sitiing on his hind quartcris in the middle of the road^ gathering up the dust with his hands, ttnd.muking "mountains out of mole hills,'' Tho horse stopped—ho smelt of tho child—thero was no room to turn off. With his thick lips he gathered tho frock between his teeth, lifted tho child, laid him gently on the outside of the wheel track and "went on his way rejoicing," and well he might rejoice—ho had done a noblo deed.",. -f

POPULATION OF CUBA. Mr. Wilson gives the following classification of the population of Cuba in 1850: Creole whites 620,000 Spaniards 35,000 troops and marines 23,000 foreigners 10.560 floailng population 17,000—total of the white population 605,560, free mulattoes 11.200 freo blacks' 87,376 slave mulattoes 11.100 slave blacks 426,000—total colored population 641,670. Grand totul of the eniiro population 1,247,230. $

NEW YORK CITY.

There are in New York Ciiy mWe than 230 places of worship, 120 newspaper primary schools, 1,000 police men. 18 station booses, 40l streets, the longest lieing 3 miles. 36 banks, excit/siv^ of saving banks, 62 fire insurance companies. 25 marine,, steamers.

MjtTatNONfiT. Aoswcr.—A company has been formed in B«ston, with a capital of $15,000. called "The N. E. Matrimonial Agency Co.. Geutlemcn in van ol wive*, nttlf ladies in want of husbands, pay S3 atfd have their names registered. This done, they are emitted for one year to receive tritroductitirtK and other assistance from the Company.

Joe PeotlaQd says lie know« a youth who, every time be wishes to gut a glimjise of his sweet-heart, lias to "holler fire** right unJcr her window, ifj the alarm of the momtmt, she plunges her head out of the window, and excUums "whore!" when he poeucsNy slaps himself »o tlto bosom, and exclaims, ilecs, uy 1 UnguiiiKit" Toucliing, isn't Hi

Mas. Swi*SH&j.M.— l'his wotaan has been seeking notoriety (t a few year* past, and she now, we think *n tbe way of attaining it to Iter heart's coolest- Her recent scurriltous* and wo have no doubt, utterly false attack on the charactered Mr. Webster, is such At wesheuld have expected from a dooizea of fr tve Points in New York—not from «he editress of a widely circulated, and hitherto tolerably respectable pajw-—Logo* Gax

It has been ascertained that Eve waif sixteen years old when she discovered herself by tbe side of Adam.

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TILLING OUCH,IDS.

All fruit trees experience great odvantages from tho tilling of the earth, evei^ ifrto manure is applied, by keeping thd ground free ant) open to the influence of haqt, water, and air. W hen the grassec form firm and compact sod over tho em tire roots, they not only absorb a great ptortion of tbe nutriment required by tho tr^MB, but, from theclose and fibrous na^ tore of the grass roots, absorb and keep back all the .water that that falls in ordi* nary sumtner ?howers, depriving tho tree, which, from the great exertion rej qulted to produce fruit and make new wood, needs all and often more during figfttaiti periods than nature supplies. ^Timpthy grass is the least objaction* able for an orchard, as it alone never forms a very close Interwoven sward only ittcreasing By offsets like wheat, it exists in ekifnps. White cloverbeloftgsi to the same clasd of non-combatants of fruit tre^ as its» rootsskim the surface and ncv(ir,jienetraie deep, they leave a lender' permeable avvHru. lied clover perhaps Maintains the most open and porous soil of any of the articles used I'or,stocking, or rotating crops but still it is esteemed as having a very deleterious effuct on orchards, particularly on ydung trees, as the roots penetrate deeply, and dispute the possession of the moisture and nutritive gnses belartgifig to and necessary ,forjthe.Jifoiand_ oxis tcti9eof the tree.

But those grasses that increase bv $uake hoads br runners uttdergfoiind like June, t^tiaek, rea top, and various others, are most detrimental, from thelt impervious compjctnesq atid hard feed-?" in" on tho soil. loung orchards should be kept under the hoe till the trees acquire a strong hetHvhy growth, and begirt io bear cleverly when they may be rotated with grain and grasses and, in rri a during for corn und ojher hoed crops, manure the troes and hoe them out as carcfully as you would the corn plants.

In ploughing, becarcful to shallow the furrow near the roots, which reach as far or ftirdter ihanthe tafto tio. or you ^bt oftly cut off tlte supplies of the tree but cause the broken roots to send up a muliiude of ickers, detrimental to the fruit, and being if-oiiblt'fiorno in cultivation.

Whertl grass has got possession of ah orchard «r fruhery, and it is not convenient to cultivate it, a very good, process is to give a strong qoat of chip manure, sit's\V, or ifjured hay fronf s'.riqkfi, so th'lck as to' smother, ihe grasses and cause tbe'turf foM Care must be taken ift the fall to clear it away from the base nf the tree, to Jeter the depredations of mice.

Many ffefsdbs think if they throw rotting vegetable substances rf foot Ot- two afound the tree that they have done a elever think, but it is great mistake the roots extend many feet, and the fine spongloles or absorbettts dre mostly at the extremity of the roots, and not immediately about the bole or neck of,thfc tree.—Riira/ New joH-er.^

on this subject, presented to the

tf. S. Senate a few days since, by Mr. Dickinson, contains provisions which will be .greatly pionlotive of general convenience nnd comfort. It directs the coinage of one cent piccos, to be compiled of one-tenth silver and nine-tenths copper, and to weigh twenty-five graimi. It niso directs the coinage of three-cent pieces, to be composed of three fourths silvpr and one fourth copner, and to weigh twelvfe and three-eighths grains the devices to be conspicuously different from those of the other silver coins, v.-

A peculiarity' is attached to this one piece, that it is to be procured at the micft only for the smalt Spanish money (ftps, levies, and quarters) at their current value, arid not by Weigh]:, as ijlso for somo few other denominations of foreign silvor fcoin currerf* rfrrion'g tis. This provision (justly remarks the Philadelphia Bulletin) will certainly clear tfio country c^*

ofiici, &0 free schools wal «he worn-out and irregular currency, long since become a plague and nuUf ance, und ofteri a cdutse of contention amongst dealers. In place of it we shall have a coin of sufficient size, and agree* able appearance,' well fitted to the prices of iriany things and to making change.

The exchange is to be made in rots of not less than thirty dollars' worth at a time, Samples have been struck at the mint fort lie use of Congress Thfe cent piece it of ihu dlarffeUtf of a dime, and is marked by tar§e round hole in the centre, 4t*r object* of which ore io give a larger circumI'creftce to the piece, and to make it ca«i!y distinguished, even in the dark.

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Alf the inhabitants of the globes

oil a, rougb calculation, could not, in a thousand million of years, write out all :ho transpositions of the twenty-six let« tvrs, cfen supposing that each wrote forty daily, each of which pages conlafineo forty ciffercnt transpositions of dte Ifeftenr. in /J bobtaUnrtl having giveu a grand gar !a, Wis uiilor was among the company, wnotri fills lordship addressed: "My dear sir, 1 remember your ftfoi, but forgel your name,'* when the tailor Whispered: "I madeyjur breeches." bo notieman taking him by the band siud loudly, "M«»jor Bridges, 1 am very, glad to sec you." ji-Li-i.nir-wi'i- w«-,

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